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Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Identification (RFFI) is a lightweight physical layer identity authentication technique. It identifies the radio-frequency device by analyzing the signal feature differences caused by the inevitable minor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Donghong Cai , Jiahao Shan , Ning Gao , Bingtao He , Yingyang Chen , Shi Jin , Pingzhi Fan

Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) has emerged as a pivotal task for reliable device authentication. Despite advancements in RFFI methods, background noise and intentional modulation features result in weak energy and subtle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Jing Xiao , Wenrui Ding , Zeqi Shao , Duona Zhang , Yanan Ma , Yufeng Wang , Jian Wang

We present DeepCSI, a novel approach to Wi-Fi radio fingerprinting (RFP) which leverages standard-compliant beamforming feedback matrices to authenticate MU-MIMO Wi-Fi devices on the move. By capturing unique imperfections in off-the-shelf…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Francesca Meneghello , Michele Rossi , Francesco Restuccia

In Internet of Things, where billions of devices with limited resources are communicating with each other, security has become a major stumbling block affecting the progress of this technology. Existing authentication schemes-based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Sekhar Rajendran , Zhi Sun , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Radio-frequency fingerprints~(RFFs) are promising solutions for realizing low-cost physical layer authentication. Machine learning-based methods have been proposed for RFF extraction and discrimination. However, most existing methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Renjie Xie , Wei Xu , Yanzhi Chen , Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In wireless communication systems, the asynchronization of the oscillators in the transmitter and the receiver along with the Doppler shift due to relative movement may lead to the presence of carrier frequency offset (CFO) in the received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Tao Chen , Shilian Zheng , Jiawei Zhu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting through Deep Learning (RFFDL) is a data-driven IoT authentication technique that leverages the unique hardware-level manufacturing imperfections associated with a particular device to recognize (fingerprint)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Amani Al-shawabka , Philip Pietraski , Sudhir B Pattar , Pedram Johari , Tommaso Melodia

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) has evolved as an effective solution for authenticating devices by leveraging the unique imperfections in hardware components involved in the signal generation process. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Raju Dhakal , Prashant Shekhar , Laxima Niure Kandel

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification technology, which exploits relatively stable hardware imperfections, is highly susceptible to constantly changing channel effects. Although various channel-robust RFF feature extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xuan Yang , Dongming Li , Yi Lou , Xianglin Fan

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging technique for the lightweight authentication of wireless Internet of things (IoT) devices. RFFI exploits unique hardware impairments as device identifiers, and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jie Ma , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Alan Marshall , Chip-Hong Chang

An estimation method of Radio Frequency fingerprint (RFF) based on the physical hardware properties of the nonlinearity and in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance of the transmitter is proposed for the authentication of wireless orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Honglin Yuan , Jiangzhou Wang , Chen Xu , Juping Gu , Qiang Sun , Yan Yan , Zhihua Bao

Trusted identification is critical to secure IoT devices. However, the limited memory and computation power of low-end IoT devices prevent the direct usage of conventional identification systems. RF fingerprinting is a promising technique…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Tianhang Zheng , Zhi Sun , Kui Ren

In order to address the issue of limited data samples for the deployment of pre-trained models in unseen environments, this paper proposes a residual channel-based data augmentation strategy for Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Rui Pan , Hui Chen , Guanxiong Shen , Hongyang Chen

Traditional authentication in radio-frequency (RF) systems enable secure data communication within a network through techniques such as digital signatures and hash-based message authentication codes (HMAC), which suffer from key recovery…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Baibhab Chatterjee , Debayan Das , Shovan Maity , Shreyas Sen

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting is a tool which allows for authentication by utilizing distinct and random distortions in a received signal based on characteristics of the transmitter. We introduce a deep learning-based authentication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Justin McMillen , Gokhan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

Fingerprinting radio frequency (RF) emitters typically involves finding unique characteristics that are featured in their received signal. These fingerprints are nuanced, but sufficiently detailed, motivating the pursuit of methods that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Alex Hiles , Bashar I. Ahmad

Deep learning-based radio frequency fingerprinting (RFFP) has become an enabling physical-layer security technology, allowing device identification and authentication through received RF signals. This technology, however, faces significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Haytham Albousayri , Bechir Hamdaoui , Weng-Keen Wong , Nora Basha

Radio Frequency fingerprints (RFF) authentication is one of the methods for the physical-layer information security, which uses the hardware characteristics of the transmitter to identify its real identity. In order to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan Yan , Hong-lin Yuan , Zhi-hua Bao , Guo-an Zhang

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting techniques provide a promising supplement to cryptography-based approaches but rely on dedicated equipment to capture in-phase and quadrature (IQ) samples, hindering their wide adoption. Recent advances…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yong Huang , Wenjing Wang , Dalong Zhang , Junjie Wang , Chen Chen , Yan Cao , Wei Wang